PowerView® Automation
Program your window treatments so that they adjust themselves automatically, creating the perfect room ambiance morning, noon and night.
Sheer Shades
Learn more about Hunter Douglas custom window sheers, including our shadings and privacy sheers. Innovative, light-diffusing sheers. Your trusted source for window treatments.
Cellular Shades
Cellular honeycomb shades from Hunter Douglas. An energy-efficient design that traps air in distinct pockets to help keep your house cool in the summer and warm in the winter.
Roman Shades
Custom-made fabric Roman Shades by Hunter Douglas, combining the look of soft folds with the ease and convenience of a shade. Custom-crafted.
Roller Shades
The Hunter Douglas roller shades & solar screen shades collections offer excellent light control and a clean, stylish look in a range of fabrics and materials.
Woven Shades
For a warm, natural look our Hunter Douglas Woven Wood Shades collection of window treatments transforms sunlight into captivating design statements. Choose yours today.
Vertical Shades
Find the right custom vertical shades for any room in your home. Search our most popular window shades.
Wood Blinds
From controlling light to their stylish, sleek look, wood blinds have been a favorite among homeowners for decades.
Metal Blinds
Find the perfect metal blinds for any room in your home. From controlling light to their stylish, sleek look, metal blinds have been a favorite among homeowners.
Vertical Blinds
Discover Hunter Douglas customized vertical blinds featuring elegant styling and translucency in a large selection of colors, treatments, and textures. Lifetime guarantee.
Shutters
Hunter Douglas custom window shutters provide superior light control and privacy with classic styles, long-lasting finishes, and exceptional craftsmanship.
Drapery
Choose from timeless and on-trend fabrics, including lofty textures and alluring jacquards, artisanal embroideries and luminous sheers.
Light Enhancing
Enjoy the beauty of natural light and make any space more captivating, with the following light-enhancing shades.
Room Darkening
Want a darker room for better sleep or optimal movie binging? These shades and drapes help block light at the window.
Energy Efficient
Live comfortably and save energy with these shades. Designer to keep a room warm in the winter and cool in the summer.
Door Coverings
Manage natural light and add privacy with these window treatments that work well for sliding-glass and patio doors.
Sound Absorption
Create a quieter, more relaxing room with these window treatments, which help absorb sound, reducing exterior noise.
Top-Down Bottom-Up
For privacy and natural light, position shades from the top, bottom or both. These shades have this feature available.
Custom Bedding
We create one-of-a-kind custom bedding designs.
Custom Slipcovers
Easily change the look of a sofa, arm chair, or bench cushion.
Drapery & Valances
Add the perfect finishing touch to your windows.
Fabrics
Choose from our large selection of fabric colors, patterns and textures.
Motorized Window Coverings
Enjoy the convenience of motorized window coverings.
Upholstery
We offer re-upholstery services for all furniture styles.
Window Covering Measuring & Installations
Our measuring and installation service will ensure an exact fit for your window coverings.
About Us
Blair, a graduate of UNC-Chapel Hill, first fell in love with design work in New York City after college in relation to public relations and marketing work there, before moving back to North Carolina to work full-time in residential design in Raleigh, their hometown.
Testimonials and Reviews
Find out what our past customers think about the products and services that Beaufort Blind & Shutter Shoppe provides.
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Bathroom
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Bedroom
See window covering solutions for privacy and room darkening.
Home Office
See window covering solutions for light filtering and glare control.
Kitchen
See window covering solutions for a variety of needs and kitchen styles.
Living Room
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Media Room
See room darkening window treatments for your media room.
Nursery & Kids Room
See child-safe window coverings for baby nurseries and kids rooms
Angled Windows
See blinds and shades for angled, sloped, and triangle-shaped windows.
Arched Windows
See blinds and shades for arched, half-circle or half-moon windows.
Bay, Bow, Corner Windows
See blinds and shades for bay, bow and corner windows.
French Doors
See shutters, blinds and shades for French Doors.
Sidelights
See blinds and shades for sidelight windows.
Sliding Glass Doors
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Skylights
See blinds and shades specifically suited for skylights.
Automated
See all options for automated blinds and shades.
Blackout
See our options for blinds and shades that best control light.
Energy Efficient
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Light Filtering
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Child and Pet-Friendly
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What is a Good Alternative to Window Shutters?
Window shutters are a popular and common window covering that helps protect our homes from sunlight, pests, weather, and even intruders. However, there are many other stylish and functional options for homeowners in the Down East communities to choose from instead of your essential, everyday shutters. You can find alternatives that complement your home’s design aesthetic and meet its functional needs. Before choosing any option, check out these three alternatives at Beaufort Blinds.
Wood Blinds
A popular alternative to plantation shutters, wood blinds offer incredible privacy and improved energy efficiency at your windows. Because genuine wood is a natural insulator, these types of blinds help to naturally keep your home cooler or warmer depending on the time of year. Additionally, you can improve your home’s energy efficiency even more by closing your blinds completely.
As attractive as they are functional, wood blinds pair well with many different interior design styles. Dark wood blinds go perfectly in a living room with a traditional sofa and walnut coffee table. You can also complement a rustic abode that features Southwestern furniture and décor with a set of wood blinds from our selection of window treatments.
Woven Shades
Bring texture and natural light into your home by installing woven shades, like the Provenance® Woven Wood Shades or Alustra® Woven Textures®, as an alternative to plantation shutters. These sun-blocking items are made with natural materials like bamboo, reeds, and grasses, creating an organic, sustainable, and warm vibe in every room you add them.
Besides their eco-friendly properties, what’s excellent about woven shades is that they come in various weaves and colors, which easily complement different design styles, like coastal, bohemian, and even traditional. These natural shutter alternatives provide the modern amenities of filtering light and privacy while maintaining a connection to the great outdoors.
Cellular Shades
Skip the window shutters when you can go for a stylish yet practical option of cellular shades. Also commonly known as honeycomb shades, these window treatments have a unique construction that provides excellent insulation for energy savings. With these shades, you can control different light levels and privacy, even from sheer to blackout options.
Cellular shades, like the Duette® Cellular Shades, also offer a cleaner and modern look thanks to their wide range of colors and pleat sizes, making it effortless to pair with your home no matter the style. Another great feature of these honeycomb shades is that they help to absorb sound, making it easy to enjoy a restful night of sleep.
Why Choose Beaufort Blinds?
Whether you need to cover a single window or your entire home, these alternatives to shutters can improve the look and performance of your windows. We offer all these alternatives to window shutters and have deep knowledge and the ability to provide you with designer-like guidance in selecting the perfect window treatments, measurements, and installations and upholstery for your needs and home aesthetic in the Down East area, including Morehead City, Atlantic Beach, and Emerald Isle, NC. Schedule a free in-home consultation today or visit our showroom to shop for window treatments near Beaufort, NC.
We proudly serve residents in the areas of Beaufort, Morehead City, Atlantic Beach, Pine Knoll Shores, Indian Beach, Emerald Isle, Newport, New Bern (outlier), Harkers Island, Salter Path, Bogue, Broad Creek, Havelock, Oriental, Trent Woods!